Thanks!
Tape is rated to a 30-year shelf life under ideal conditions.
Good luck when SSDs are less reliable when powered off than HDDs, and still pricier for huge capacities.
Another old bunny photo, this time around with a Polaroid 690 sim applied to it. I was at ground level and got close enough to not scare the subject off and then just zoomed in the rest of the way using a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 lens adapted to an Olympus E-M5 at the time.
I was actually using an FD lens adapted to a Micro 4/3 camera at the time, a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 lens to be exact, and was new to running manual glass then, I just thought it was a cute shot.
Prior to getting my first ILC, an Olympus E-M5, which sadly has since died of a stuck shutter, I was using a cheap Cybershot (which I put back into service as a backup and I'm presently using it until I can get the sensor for the E-M5's replacement, a Panasonic GF2, cleaned).
And to be fair, that cheap Cybershot, an H300, really isn't that bad for what it is other than the fact that it's fully autofocus and it doesn't support shooting in raw formats and is limited to JPEGs only.
This is an old pic I snapped like four or five years ago of a bunny eating a leaf. I added a Kodachrome 200 sim to it.
This was bound to happen, someone was going to attack the Nazi propaganda platform formerly known as Twitter at some point.
At least you can still use your older hardware, and at least Radeon cards as old as GCN1 are still actively supported outside of Windows.
Also, old games still exist and will continue to exist in some form into the foreseeable future, legitimately or not.
Like, if you're not into multiplayer games, the Mesa drivers last time I thought still work well, great even, on Polaris and Vega cards as well as even legacy GCN on the Linux side of things, you can still use your RX 580 or 590 with full support going that route, for example.
You can always build a PC and not have to deal with that UEFI signing stuff as you're expected to provide your own OS still, that option hasn't been eliminated yet.
Also, AMD cards are more friendly to Linux users than Nvidia cards are, even with the existence of NVK for the latter; NVK only supports Turing and newer cards and Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta are too old for it, and since Nouveau is broken on Maxwell and newer by firmware signing, once those cards lose support in the proprietary drivers, unless NVK gets backported to them somehow, you'll be SOL in the near future for 900-series, 10-series, and the Titan V, while Kepler and older is still supported by Nouveau, meanwhile over at AMD, Mesa actively supports Radeon cards going back to GCN1.
Basically, if you still have an R9 Fury or an RX 580 sitting around, for example, those cards will still be actively supported by Mesa open drivers for the foreseeable future, meanwhile your GTX 980Ti or 1080Ti, at least currently, are fully at the mercy of Nvidia's closed drivers.
And so far LibreWolf and Icecat have both worked fine for me.
Wouldn't that also block Firefox by proxy?
It's going to get to the point where you might be better off going back to dot matrix if tank-based inkjet printers are somehow locked down via chemical DRM too.
In the US at least, the courts are seemingly bought out.
No, it's just worn out by being exposed to the elements for a long time.